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NewCanaanite.com recently received the following letter. Send letters to editor@newcanaanite.com. 

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If you’ve been approached to sign the petition overturning New Canaan’s summer restrictions on gas-powered leaf blowers, here’s what your signature actually does — and what petition organizers aren’t telling you. Your signature delays a decision that was already yours to make. New Canaan’s ordinance wasn’t rushed through Town Hall. It was debated publicly for years — through committee meetings, public hearings, Town Council meetings, letters to the editor, presentations, news coverage, and extensive public comment.

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Rocco Lawrence Cerretani, 77

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Rocco Lawrence Cerretani grew up in New Canaan Connecticut, attending St Aloysius school and graduating from New Canaan high school in 1967. Larry spent his final years living in DeLand Florida from 2013 to his passing in 2026. He was born on April 10, 1949 to Rocco and Pauline Cerretani and died June 2, 2026. Larry was a truck driver in Pennsylvania and started his own truck repair business. He worked for the New Canaan public schools for 20 years starting at the high school in the AV department and finishing with transportation in the business department.

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Canoe Hill Road Colonial Sells for $3 Million

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The following property transfer(s) were recorded recently in the Town Clerk’s office. For more information about each property from the assessor, click on the street address. To get the history of a New Canaan street name, click here. ***

June 4

202 Weed St. $2,075,000
Jeffrey Norman to Maria Farani de Azevedo

June 3

35 Canoe Hill Road

$3 million
John Bagshaw to Jack McGivney

June 2

71 St.

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Letter to the Editor

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NewCanaanite.com received the following letter. Send letters to editor@newcanaanite.com. ***

Dear Editor:

It’s difficult to imagine that any young teenager would be given a motorcycle or allowed to ride in a car without a seatbelt. And yet, they are being given electric bikes and sent, with developing prefrontal cortexes, into a world of distracted drivers, road rage, and 5,000 lb. projectiles. 

For example: during evening rush hour last week, six teenagers, five on e-bikes and one on an e-scooter, rode from New Canaan to Darien and did the following:

turned left on red through an active intersection at Farm Road and South Avenue in New Canaan; 
evaded police at Mansfield Avenue and Sedgwick Avenue in Darien by racing through a four-way stop with cars on all sides; 
reached speeds of approximately 40 mph by slowing down to block traffic and then quickly accelerating; 
crossed the yellow line in front of oncoming traffic; 
popped wheelies and rode on one wheel near oncoming traffic; and 
caused a traffic jam. Last year, Connecticut realized a 350% increase in the number of fatalities and injuries involving bikes and e-bikes on state roads, and that metric shows no sign of stopping.

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NewCanaanite.com received the following letter. Send letters to editor@newcanaanite.com. ***

To the Editor:

The New Canaan Pops in the Park Committee wishes to express our gratitude to the residents of New Canaan and our neighboring communities for supporting the 5th annual Pops in the Park with the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra.  

We estimate that approximately 1,800 people turned out on Sunday, June 7th for our “America 250!” concert on the great lawn behind Waveny House. A big thank you goes to our Platinum Sponsors Chris Gruseke and Bankwell, the lead sponsor again this year, and Chris and Terri Bell (Horizon Kinetics), as well as our Gold Sponsors, including Waveny Park Conservancy, where Michelle Crookenden and the Board do amazing work in the upkeep of our beautiful park. 

Our heartfelt thanks go out to our other generous sponsors:

Karl Chevrolet 
New Canaan Community Foundation
Dawn Sterner at Brown Harris Stevens Real Estate
Walter Stewart’s Market
Bill Bergner at State Farm Insurance
New Canaan Music
CMI Dunkin
HTG Investment Advisors
The Franco, Lara Kelly, Kerridge and Schlein families in New Canaan and Westport.  

We offer special thanks to all our volunteers, especially the Service League of Boys (SLOBS).